This is an analysis of the poem My Neighbors Garden that begins with:

Why in my neighbour's garden
Are the flowers more sweet than mine?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AabXAcXcAdXdaeaebaba beXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 10101111 111011010 1101110 1011010 1011111 1101110 1111101 1011010 1011101 1001011 11111101 1111110 1111111 11101110 1101101 1111010 111101 01101010 111111 0101010 011011 11111101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, his are repeated.

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  • summary of My Neighbors Garden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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